Quotes About Beauty

Christy Turlington is my idol. She really is. She's a gorgeous woman inside and out. I admire her work in the charity field. She's just been able to balance it all - and gracefully, as well.

I'm grateful to look the way I do. However, if I could change anything, I would like to be a bit bigger all over. Not much - just a bit.

I don't know if I could do this with the same energy, and in the same way - all the costume changes and glitter and hair and makeup - all the time. When I'm in my 50s, I kind of think I'll want to be in a garden.

If I could have the discipline to be super-skinny, I would be.

I am truly happy with what I've got. But if I could alter something, it would be my hands. I've never been satisfied with them - I would love longer fingers.

I once said to someone, 'If I could shave my head and wear no makeup and get a part just on my talent, I would be the happiest person in the world.'

Don't get me wrong - I'm not against makeup. If I could manage looking like 'me' in a way that also read as tastefully, invisibly airbrushed, I'd sign up for that faster than you could choose a filter to do it for me.

If I could do anything, I'd ride horses all day.

If I could change two things, it would be my chest.

How attractive you are is entirely based on you feel about yourself, and if I could tell my 20-year-old self that - and really explain it - I think it would have changed my life.

Anywhere, you're going to get people who are ignorant or rude but it's not the whole of society. I don't think my life is doomed because I look like this.

If your eyes are far apart, bringing the brow shape closer together gives the illusion of shorter distance between the eyes.

Magazines airbrush everything. If you think it's an illusion, then it probably is.

I wasn't put on the cover of 'Sports Illustrated' as a plus-size model; I was put on the cover of 'Sports Illustrated' as a model, as a rookie, as Ashley Graham.

Sadly, bird illustration has always been an under-appreciated art.

Healthy body image is not something that you're going to learn from fashion magazines.

I'm interested in aesthetics, in the way things look, in finding something in an image that maybe people haven't seen.

It's not just Ethiopia, but Africa in general - most of the media concentrates on what's not going well. But there is so much beauty there. When you go, it changes everything. It changes you, your life, and the way you see things. The challenge is changing the image of Africa that's been anchored in people for years now.

So many images are saying to girls, 'Show a lot of skin and look gorgeous and sexy.'

We're always bombarded with images from magazines of what looks cool and sexy.

I don't know what a world would be like if you do away with sexy images.

It's like I understand images and some people understand poetry.

This is a culture filled with perfect images of women and perfect images of movie actresses, and most people can't live up to them.

Words and images deeply impact the way we view our bodies, and the consequences can be very damaging.